Indoor air pollution is responsible for the deaths and illness of millions of young children in developing countries. This study investigated the acceptability (willingness to try) and feasibility (ability to perform) of four indoor air pollution reduction behaviors (improve stove maintenance practices, child location practices, ventilation practices and reduce the duration of solid fuel burnin...

This paper presents Eco-avatars, a tool aiming to promote long-term energy conservation behaviors across householders. It takes advantage of the emotional links that can form between humans and avatars, or personal digital personifications. The application represents each member of a household as an avatar situated in a shared graphical environment that reacts according to individual consumptio...

Infant sleep undergoes dramatic evolution during the first year of life. This process is driven by underlying biological forces but is highly dependent on environmental cues including parental influences. In this review the links between infant sleep and parental behaviors, cognitions, emotions and relationships as well as psychopathology are examined within the context of a transactional model...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between family cohesion and behaviors linked to health or overweight in adolescents. METHOD Cross-sectional analyses of family cohesion and eating behaviors of 2,379 girls (followed from ages 9-19) who participated in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth and Health Study (NGHS). Height and weight measurements were obtained on an annual basi...

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit global economy, and it also greatly affected all industries with college students as the core consumer group. Through questionnaire survey, this paper found that during epidemic period, students' consumption in catering tourism decreased significantly, utilization rate of supermarket flash delivery services was not high, they were satisfied provided by online educa...